Comparisons were drawn between the development of television in the 20th century and the diffusion of printing in the 15th and 16th centuries. Yet much had happened (91) . As was discussed before, it was not (92) the 19th century that the newspaper became the dominant pree-leetronie (93) , following in the wake of the pamphlet and the book and in the (94) of the periodical. It was during the same time that the communications revolution (95) up, beginning with transport, the railway, and leading (96) through the telegraph, the telephone, radio, and motion pictures (97) the 20th-eentury world of the motor ear and the airplane. Not everyone sees that process in (98) . It is important to do so.
It is generally recognized, (99) , that the introduction of the computer in the early 20th century, (100) by the invention of the integrated circuit during the 1960s, radically changed the process, (101) its impact on the media was not immediately (102) . As time went by, computers became smaller and more powerful, and they became "personal" too, as well as (103) , with display becoming sharper and storage (104) increasing. They were thought of, like people, (105) generations, with the distance between generations much (106)
It was within the computer age that the term" information society" began to be widely used to describe the (107) within which we now live. The communications revolution has (108) both work and leisure and how we think and feel both about place and time, but there have been (109) views about its economic, political, social and cultural implications. "Benefits" have been weighed (110) "harmful" outcomes. And generalizations have proved difficult.
A．process
B．company
C．light
D．form
参考答案：B
解析： 文章相关部分是newspaper became the dominant pre-electronic medium，following in the wake of the pamphlet and the book and in the (94) of the periodical，从结构上来看，现在分词结构following in the wake of和介词短语in the (94) of是并列成分，都做主句的伴随状语，newspaper，pamphlet and book. periodical也是三个平行的部分，它们之间的关系是通过in the wake of和in the (94) of两个部分来体现的。分词结构following in the wake of…意为随着宣传册和书的出现以后，体现了时间上的先后。因此空格处的动词构成的短语既需要与分词结构表并列含义，又需要体现newspaper和periodical之间的时间关系。四个选项从意义上来看，只有B符合。